thank. syria pledges to retaliate to all its close ally iran warns of dire consequences after israel launches a bombing raid on a target near damascus. unique footage surfaces of alleged atrocities committed by modern troops and tanks freshly retaken from islam as this as reports on civilian casualties remain hard to obtain and france plans full military handover to local troops. he exposed america's torture program and got thirty months for doing so coming up we speak to the decorated cia veteran who turned against the agency. and british prime minister david cameron defies warnings of an eminent threat g u k interests and troubles to libya where he has pledged to help train the country's stretched security forces.

it's ten pm here in moscow you live with us on our team it's good to have you with us sara says it may take action against israel off to itself fighter jets reportedly violated syria's sovan t. and bombed a military research complex close to damascus meanwhile diplomats in syria are friendly iran says that the attacks whole significant implications for israel are does put us here is in tel aviv with more details. now we are hearing from syria that israel did launch a military strike inside that country israel has not commented neither confirming nor denying these reports the syrian ambassador to lebanon did say that it was not clear when ever telling a three act would happen and that it was up to the powers that be to decide on such decisive action but he did say that it was an option and that it was and would be

a surprise now the iranian foreign minister has also stated that this israeli attack has serious implications for the israeli city of tel aviv and those are indeed quite harsh warnings what we understand from syria from syria and sources is that the israelis hit a research center not far from the capital city of damascus and that at least two unsigned workers were killed there are also reports that the strike hit a convoy of weapons that was making its way from syria to lebanon and now washington reportedly was warned by israel of its intention to strike inside syria this kind of comment coming from a high ranking american official who has spoken on condition that he not being named it is important to mention that a couple of months ago iran's revolutionary guard did say that assad had friends in the region who had not yet entered the fray the quote was that these planes were

poised to strike out in case there was an intervention in syria earlier this month is well deployed if i am going to face in the soft system to its border with syria nectars of the growing concern that they could be some kind of use of chemical weapons as i mentioned earlier we have no comment yet from tel aviv there also have been no comment from washington moscow has said if indeed these reports are accurate that the israelis did strike inside the syrian territory it is a gross violation of the united nations charter the arab league for its side has slammed is roll for these alleged strikes saying that they are a flagrant act of aggression and a glaring violation of syria's sovereignty. for more twenty four seven updates on the reported israeli bombing as well as opinions from inside the middle east check out paul is a twitter feed and one of the latest tweets as she citing the hebrew press which

says a syrian rebel group has actually claimed responsibility for the attack on the military research center near damascus. want to talk more on the air strikes in syria i'm joined a live out by dr abraham illusion political analyst a professor at the. university in amman jordan now professor while we're getting no official comment from israel. the main thing right now is to remember that this comes on the heels of systematic targeting of syrian herbal uses by the syrian free army and the syrian opposition also i'd like to remind you that the syrian opposition has already thought of the radar station on the edges of the golan heights last year so this comes as a continuation of the of for to destroy the syrian army by the opposition and now by the masters themselves by the israelis so what we are

witnessing now is a reflection of the political impasse that the syrian opposition as suffering from being able to achieve anything significant on the ground they have resorted to help from the zionists directly i don't think that this is a policy of making public comments of strikes be it assassinations or strikes that they launch outside the boundaries of international law officials in the u.s. say the attack was actually carried out to stop illegal supplies of weapons to hezbollah is it justified it is the case. well i could barely hear the question but the five got it right you are asking about a convoy of a shipment of arms to hizbullah and fucked we do not know of this is true we

know what the syrian government has said. basically a stationary target was was thought to get the by israeli planes and we do not know of these planes actually penetrate the syrian outer space since they could easily have target the that they should not have targets from live in these outer space using longer range missiles that could reach up to dozens of kilometers from the space or from to the ground so. we know for a fact that the israelis are taking advantage of the fact that the syrian army as very busy fighting off and they instigated the revolt inside syria and maybe there's a good chance that the corpus of this was to. bring in the syrian army to engage the leaves so the left of the pressure

of the syrian opposition and allow it to achieve some gains there's a possibility that the purpose of this talk was mainly to have the syrians respond to that isn't really is and then have the syrian will they respond to that which will three either will syria possible possibly retaliate will syria possibly retaliate. there is no question that syria would be little bit but this does not mean that syria will launch a strike against israeli targets there are worries that the syrians. the not involved there are parks as the longest there are. the syrians traditionally being. of their own balance of power between them and the

israelis as well being supported by a neutral on the united states they will avoid there are gone from person as much as possible which is a wise thing to do i believe that nicholas speaking you have the lebanese the resistance the palace the numbers as those other types of resistance that are capable of attacking and several places without being certainly linked to the syrians for him for syria dr abraham louche a political analyst and professor at the university in amman jordan thank you thank you thank you israel must move all of its half a million settlers out of palestine says a fresh un of rights a report dubbed biased and counterproductive by the tel of eve the investigation say it's a growing settlement to russia could be seen as a war crime details just ahead. a

decorated cia veteran turned a torture whistleblower and the agency outcast is now waiting a summons to start a prison sentence john my curia who was one of the first to confirm the existence of washington's waterboarding program and has been sent to jail for two and a half years for revealing the name of an undercover agent we're now joined by john a korea cream solve for his view on the punishment mr karaoke thank you very much for being with us the judge and your critics all seem to believe you got off lightly would you say you got off lightly. no i would not say i got off lightly for a couple of very specific reasons first of all my case was not about leaking my case was about torture when i blew the whistle on torture in december of two thousand and seven the justice to department here in the united states began investigating me and never stopped investigating me until they were able to patch

together. charge and force me into taking a plea agreement and i'll add another thing to when i took the plea in october of last year the judge said that she thought the plea was was fair and appropriate but once the courtroom was packed full of reporters last friday she decided that it was not long enough and if she had had the ability to she would have given me ten years did you ever consider that there might be some comeback i mean being a decorated cia officer you took that stunt that to was the agency's policy i did i took a strong stance and a very public one and that's what got me into trouble but honestly the only thing i would do differently is i would have hired an attorney before blowing the whistle otherwise i believe firmly even to this day i did the right thing you've called it ironic that the first person to be convicted with regards to the torture program is

the man who actually shed light on it do you believe the others who put the program together will ever face justice. i don't actually i think that president obama just like president bush has made a conscious decision to allow the torturers to allow the people who conceived of of the torture and implemented the policy to allow the people who destroyed the evidence of the torture and the attorneys who used specious legal analysis to approve of the torture to walk free and i think that once that decision has been made that's the end of it and nobody will be prosecuted except me but when you came out initially against torture you said it was impractical and inefficient did you consider it immoral initially i sent in two thousand and two that it was immoral when i returned from pakistan to cia headquarters in the summer early in the summer

of two thousand and two i was asked by a senior officer in the cia's counterterrorist center if i wanted to be. techniques and i told him that i had a moral problem with these techniques i believed that they were wrong and i didn't want to have anything to do with the torture program what if torture had been efficient would it would you have found a great to support ben no no i grew up in a very pious greek orthodox home and you know we were we were instilled from a very young age with with a very clear sense of right and wrong and i believed from the beginning that torture was wrong it's no secret that obama's administration has been especially harsh on whistle blow was but can the u.s. afford leniency in the security sensitive times. well see this is i think this is exactly what the problem is in this post nine eleven atmosphere that we find ourselves in we have been losing our civil liberties incrementally

over the last decade to the point where we don't even realize how much of a police state the united states has become you know ten years ago the thought of the national security agency spying on american citizens and intercepting their emails would have been anathema to americans and now it's just part of normal business. the idea that that our government would be using drone aircraft to assassinate american citizens who have never seen the inside of a courtroom who have never been charged with a crime have not had due process which is their constitutional right would have been unthinkable and it's something now that happens every every so often every few weeks every few months and there is no public outrage i think this is a very dangerous development obama's tough stance and how punishment for whistle blow was you know i have sent a message but it is the winning in this fight against a little below what i don't think he is winning this fight against whistleblowers

at least not over the long term and i'll tell you why president obama has charged now seven people with violations of the espionage act all previous presidents in american history combined have charged three people with violating the espionage act and the espionage act is a world war one era act that was meant to deter german saboteurs during that first world war and now it's being used to silence critics of the government but. seven of these cases that have made their way into a courtroom have either collapsed or have been dismissed including mine all of the of the three espionage charges against me were dropped so i think frankly the obama administration is cheapening the espionage act the espionage act should be used to prosecute spies and traitors not to prosecute whistleblowers or people who are

exercising their first amendment right to free speech do we still need whistleblowers are we going to see more of them coming out i think we will see more whistleblowers and i think we need whistleblowers now more than ever before whether it's in our security or whether it's in the banking industry the american people have a right to know when there is evidence of waste fraud abuse or illegality if the justice department isn't going to prosecute those cases at the very least the american people need to know john kiriakou x a cia officer and talk show whistleblower speaking to us a live thank you very much for your time thanks for thanks for having me. and lively and he does session in the u.s. senator obama's pick up for defense secretary goes before lawmakers have a confirmation hearing starts with vocal protests already coming from the israeli lobby that's coming up.

and he has managed to get exclusive footage of what's believed to be atrocities committed by the mali an army in a town liberated from islamist rebels with the help of french forces any information on civilian casualties in mali has been notably scarce we spoke to a local journalist gonzalo one child who told us all the regions of the disturbing tape. dinny moving north and find reports of extrajudicial killings and evidence of crimes we have heard of the murder of a few citizens by molly and soldiers in the town of silver not only did they kill them they shove their bodies into the drinking water well ok today in the center of the town like in the rest of the population watch rules are hearing of cases where people are being prosecuted for trying to earn a living under the rule of militants all sixteen year old adama says he was unknowingly employed as a cook and butler by jihadists who is now being accused of terrorism. after i

started working as a cook in the town of do when i went to surveyor there i met an old man and i asked him for a drink of water he said that he won't share water with terrorists i said that i was in a terrorist and i was just thirsty then i was put into prison i am no terrorist i didn't even know that i was working with militants i only realized that through the rumors i started hearing and then when everyone went on to the frontline i was just cooking food for them no one even talked to me i think persecution is also reportedly becoming widespread in the area of arabs and said to be persecuted on charges of allegedly collaborating with the militants you know the government and the french troops are fighting against our contacts in timbuktu he also told us that shops belonging to arabs are being looted. the french have to retake in the final major city of k. del from the islamists the say they will soon leave mali handing operations over to government troops loot avenues to international consultant and former deputy

speaker of the belgian parliament says this is a bad idea considering the low discipline and lack of funding in the west african nation. what i hear now is how this surprises me i mean that first of all the million army does hold a grudge against the people who lost them from the northern part of the country and secondly the soldiers of very low grade and that's very little dominance at such as a they're not really a regular army in that sense there's only. hardly a state apparatus functioning how can you really just have people and examine what they do you can't you just ground in a country like that so the only thing you can do correctly is if you think people might be terrorist is hold them and arrest them and detain them but you certainly are doing this kind of extrajudicial executions but it totally surprises me that this is going on right now this country needs support yes this country needs on the

move why is it that this help only comes in the form of military invasions that's a basic question usually we should ask ourselves and there's also fears of sectarian revenge attacks in mali for name the french and lead to military campaign one this as well as images from the conflict one country on r.t. dot com. and later in the program were telling you about a double gary as government war is over energy independence it's doing its best to block a russian finance nuclear power plant after invalidating a national referendum vote back on some construction plan that story off the shop break. wealthy british style. by.

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thank you. this is our team throwing his own government's warnings to the wind and british prime minister david cameron has touched down in tripoli full of surprise visit the pm promised to stand by libya as a dream builds even as his own foreign office one breaches of a growing threat to his embassies them let's get more on what he hopes to achieve there with archies andrew solomon andrea this is the second visit in fifteen months to libya what's david cameron been up to today. well he did arrive initially very tight security and then he stressed that he wanted britain to try and beef up security in libya and try and help it improve its own economy there's no doubting that things have deteriorated in this country since twenty eleven when mr cameron last made his visit here just after the overthrow of colonel gadhafi the new libyan government is struggling with a lack of resources it's also struggling to its authority over militias and on top

of this recently the british government admitted that there was a threat to its own embassy in tripoli and that it had advised british nationals to leave benghazi because of security concerns so mr cameron is well aware that there are problems and no doubt he will be talking about these when he meets with the libyan prime minister and the president during the rest of his visit but there was one telling moment today because apart from all this he did make a fifteen minute walk about around martyrs square which was the center of the revolution he did meet with revolutionaries and he also met with people with local would see were trying to shake his hand but among school is the rule so cries from people of allahu akbar god is great and that really does perhaps indicate the fact that there are still divisions in libyan society and that while some people do support the new libyan government there are those that don't we understand that he also traveled from algeria to libya can you tell us a little bit more about that. so

we understand he traveled from algeria couldn't quite hear well yes he did as well from margaret libya coming from algeria his visit to algeria was of a similar purpose really he was trying to show that britain has support for this country and he also made reference to algeria today and also talked about the terrorist attack at the gas plant there which saw which saw thirty seven foreigners killed you mention that that was a reminder that what happens in other countries affects us at home too so i suppose putting it simply he's trying to show that britain still cares about these two countries mr cameron does have his critics though there are those that claim that really what he's trying to do is protect britain's own interests after all libya and syria are among the top five producing all countries in africa and reform our correspondents giving us an update there on david cameron's a visit to libya while they were cameron splashes out a broader it's

a different story at home british taxpayers quite follow amid revelations of baghdad judy hikes with a complicating what some say is an already bloated tax system feeding the u.k. scoffers that's coming up shortly. the u.s. senate has started a confirmation hearing of one of president obama's most controversial choices for a key job in his team chuck hagel nominated to be the new defense secretary has been under fire for his stance towards iran and is accused of being anti israel arches gana gigi can explain why certain political groups are so against his candidacy. chuck hagel has been under attack since his name was floated those president obama's pick for the defense secretary position it would see attack ads on all major u.s. t.v. channels saying what a terrible defense secretary chuck hagel would be all the large december and much of january they've been running these ads you know between commercials of beauty

products scripture and drugs and what so somewhere between those you could catch attack ads like this one secretary of defense chuck hagel president obama says he supports sanctions on iran he voted against the legal voted against labeling iran's revolutionary guard a terrorist group and while president obama says all options are on the table for preventing a nuclear iran he says military action is not a viable feasible responsible option president obama or secretary of defense chuck hagel is not responsible option. that ad was sponsored by the emergency committee for israel so what the truck will do to deserve that. igal has been critical of israel's policies he's been critical of the israeli lobby in washington here's what he said the political reality is that the jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people up here i've always argued against some of the dumb things they do because i don't think it's in the interest of israel i just don't think it's smart

for israel and of quote among other things chuck hagel dared to say that u.s. interests should trump israeli interests if they conflict he supported direct negotiations with iran and unlike many other politicians here in washington who keep repeating the all options on the table mantra but these publicly they say that the chuck hagel has been straightforward in saying a strike on iran should not be an option and he has also been a proponent of a more even handed u.s. policy with regards to these really palestinian conflict and the u.s. has been anything but even handed on the issue it's also for statements like this one that he has been under attack take a look this is chuck hagel in two thousand and six the united states will remain committed to defending israel our relationship with israel is a special and historic. but it need not and cannot be at the expense of our arab and muslim relationships. that is an irresponsible and

dangerous fault choice some saw president obama's decision to nominate chuck hagel as his message to these really hard liners we actually heard president obama say there is too much war talk going on and maybe nominating talk a go is his way of bringing down the tension and not not everybody here in washington likes that message but what's interesting since the beginning of the attack campaign against chuck hagel over these two months or so many of the attackers have sort of withdrawn their objections over chuck hagel nomination some say could be because they were seen as choruses behind closed doors that as defense secretary chuck hagel is not going to make any drastic moves to really challenge washington's foreign policy with the doxies. but some analysis of the other story i'm now joined by the founder of the wide awake a news dot com website charlie i'm a grant. mr mclaughlin hager hagel has been against the idea of striking iran over

its alleged nuclear program but before the hearing he said that he might result to military action if needed is a giving up his believes to get more support. definitely i definitely believe that i mean he's got some very stiff opposition they do not want to see him become the secretary of defense namely mccain and senator graham you know the the war hawks do not like his position that he is taking in there isn't always the answer so i think absolutely he's changing his position he's shifting towards the middle or towards the right in order to get in and get the nomination haydel has been repeatedly called pacifist do you think u.s. foreign policies will shift was being less aggressive. you know what i'd be naive if i believe that you know it when when president obama was elected in two thousand and a we you know the same kind of hope to ms and was there with shutting down get more

when ending these wars and fighting the right kind of wars but then we find out when you know after the deal is done after the elections are over the nomination process is over we continue with our war footing around the world so you know i would love to see it i would love to see a change in our so-called defense posture but unfortunately history has proven that you know a goal isn't going to change the wording of this nature i mean he's also been criticized for being too soft for the main military in place do you think in the u.s. on me will benefit to with a go at the top. i you know i think it could because you know he was a enlisted soldier in the vietnam war recently when he was interviewed he talked to this fact that he understands how important morale is to the troops and i was i was also in the gulf war so i understand what he's talking about there we have troops now we have men and women who've been fighting for over a decade some of them five six seven tours in combat zones with no a stablish goal

or no sign of victory in sight and just the promise of you know we're doing the right thing and it's going to end one day so you know if he could get in as the head of the department of finance and and give the men and women some kind of idea of what they're doing and how long it's going to last but again i mean this is probably a pipe dream on my part it would be a great notion but again history has shown will commit troops to whatever cause as long as we wrapped you know so-called democracy around it will commit them to combat zones indefinitely hedo has been strongly against a major defense budget cuts at the same time he said the budget is bloated how do you think you'll balance the books. well you know great question the united states this is united states of america you know no matter what we no matter what the politicians come before those cameras and tell you what the key factors are that we need to take care of it be a social safety nets or the economy or or jobs being created in this country the

united states will always have money for two things you can be rest assured bakers and bullets we already see the headlines coming out of the mainstream media talking about the sequester and how this is going to get our military we will have nonstop propaganda being a bombarded on to the people the fear of reducing the budget of the military so i'm absolutely confident that whoever is secretary of defense will have a very very loose pocketbook to spend to keep spending us into having it let's leave it right there thank you very much charlie mcgrath of the founder of the wide awake news dot com website that's the needful of this katie's yeah with all the latest in business in a few minutes to stay with us. here the reindeer isn't interesting for the herders. and when it suffers people do their

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getting ruthless in their attempts to devalue their cars is in order to fight off competition for rival economies now so fall looks set to be victorious and who is in the firing line now earlier i spoke to mike ingram from b g c broca's and also him exactly that. the quality that's definitely on the offensive now or some of the big central banks united states absolutely the bank of england has been there and now we're starting to see the bank of japan waiting in you know a potential with massive intervention to to weaken the yen on the on the flip side of the people who are likely to be the losers i would have to say generally the emerging market economies and also poor old euro zone with the e.c.b. largely are they able to participate in military expansion and this is

a couple not now with the year out because it is going in the opposite direction is strengthening how much of a disadvantage is that. well it's a it's a massive problem for the year is in the many years and is already in recession the latest data that we've had is that. surprising that on the upside countries like spain. and you know it's not as if europe has an inflation problem but this is only going to. increase deflationary forces it's going to slow down. growth it's going to slow down investment so yeah the euro zone's really get beaten up badly by these this currency and let's talk about the imagine market carts is that you mentioned that how do they fit into this well what happens to they have to fight with and what about the russian ruble what what's that role. well their options actually tend to be relatively limited because of the fact i mean for instance if. you read something you

dollars yeah i think it's a relatively high yielding currency so the financial cost will actually be quite high so we'll probably end up seeing some for sure as you. said she's obviously got some because of their itself but also. she controls which resume for instance and career people go to. and let's talk about the currency war and that still concept of it all how much correct me if i'm wrong does it actually damage global growth then surely there must be other ways to spur the stagnate economy. that's an excellent question i mean in. theory if everybody indulged in q we then the net effect on currency is a bilateral right so what it. might actually not be that much at all. it's

because you know that group valuable from a monetary stimulus that we're going to put it best is going to risk assets and it would in theory of a stimulating effect on the global economy because in practice what is likely to happen nothing is going to be coordinated everybody involved will try to enter seek some of the project over everyone else there are some you know central banks some authorities like p.c.b. as you mentioned earlier which makes it beyond able to engage in this kind of quantitative easing so what would happen you'd see for currency volatility. is this investment doesn't quite see that at all so what that would mean is probably a repeat of what we saw in the nineteenth thirties i mean with it would negatively impact on global economic growth and just to conclude now as we're all talking about a war today you see as the most victorious in all of that if you could name an economy a currency right now that is winning who would it pay. well

on current form it seems to be. the u.s. because you know despite the rather bad fourth quarter g.d.p. numbers released yesterday it is one of the few large economies that seems to for its way back all the economics of the site. yes we have to go for the trajectory story. which means to exploit everybody party to u.s. treasuries which will lower long term interest rates in the u.s. anyway so it's easy to see that it's a question of what the case of us sort of had today with the trail's everybody else loses. so while we're on the topic of cars says let's check out the russian ruble and see what happens today and as you can see managed to get it against the u.s. dollar but lose out to the strengthening common currency with russia and check out

the stock markets then i will be able to see that we did see some gains today for the last day of the month a lot of that was down to or oil which continues north and stocks really appreciating that hey we got a quarter of a percent of the l.t.s. on the my six and it's going to europe and see what happened there is the see saw a day of it but we ended up with declines for the london's footsie suffering a second day of declines in a row now the bourse is still on truckload to see the third best january on record since its inception all together now investors really are keeping an eye on the fiscal cliff situation as well wondering it is going to rear its ugly head as well excuse me dropping my papers never mind more march on we have got the u.s. markets to check out as well now they too are having a mixed day of it they were climbing up until about ten seconds ago but the nasdaq is now in positive territory i can tell you you have to take my word for it now there we are we've got games as you can see for the nasdaq but for the dow jones it sort of flat negative just

a yearly performance best start since nineteen eighty nine. all right then we'll move on germany is comical volkswagen will stop conveys full four days next month because of lack of demand in europe now fat is predicted to be a gloomy give full many european auto manufacturers however the russian call markets have gone ten percent last year but experts say we have seen the last of the industry growth for years to come touch on a we're poles. if you're a ford plans to close down three factories nissan in russia cuts work you need to four days old build shots factory in europe's biggest markets germany general motors called the situation on the european markets catastrophic. russia is one of the most dynamic all to markets in the world off to japan and the us and it's the second biggest in europe formula one tire maker. has invested over two

hundred million euros into. his managing director market and kate explains why russia has become one of their strategic markets then makes we've changed very be more and more. a better car because it's not a premium segment. we'll reach a certain level but the female is going to go you know britain is also a place where we produce but here it's for mostly for an alternate route up but i really have a distribution chain it's quite a strong and so russia today at the platform up from where we'd export to sadness what and for russians owns a car compared to one in two people in western europe russia is growing g.d.p. and stronger ruble helps support the industry the head of state corporation ross tech said again chairs of says russia's w t o membership will also give

a boost to the sector which affects the killswitch the but we hope that our car market will be growing not only on domestic production but also on imports since we entered the w t o market is open and they can ship as many cars as they like. pricewaterhouse coopers says that in several years the country may become the biggest european common market and even overtake japan and will peak in ten heroes at nearly four million annual cost sales but all that's at a modus three percent growth rate that's a business r.t. central russia. seems germans are losing that taste for a bit consumption on the national beverage reached its lowest level since the country united back in one thousand nine hundred ninety so why then well one of the main reasons is an aging population which means the core bit drinking age group is declining and another reason is that in the past germans would not think twice

about having a bit of breakfast but they this kind of behavior is very much frowned upon i'm not so all the business from me and less than two hours time so join me then. wealthy british style. market. can. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max concert for a no holds barred look global financial headlines tune into kinds a report. we

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you're back with me to say here on the news desk oh for more news analysis and commentary on r.t.e. . the un human rights council has released a report saying israel must move all settlers out of palestinian territories the paper says the settlements a violation of human rights destroying palestinians property and crops and driving them off their land israel has refused to cooperate with the investigation calling the report biased in qana productive human rights activists and blogger roy a model says that israel is damaging its own credibility israel has been

complaining for many years that it's being singled out by various un organs. the human rights council one of the things that it was formed to do was to have a more equitable process which has the same level of scrutiny for all you would members and although this report did single out israel its boycott of the human rights council is comprehensive it refuse to participate in a review process which every other u.n. member attends and even israel attended four years ago and that undermines not only israel's international position but the whole human rights process in general. four hundred million dollars in debt and ukraine has had to work your full time people that find out online now we've managed to get so far into the red and how it hopes to get out of it. and craving for cold energy hungry china

is burning as much of the black stuff as the rest of the world combined with levels of air pollution in the country skyrocketing that's online for you. britain's government has raised taxes twice as fast as cutting them according to a new report putting a damper own david cameron's pledge to create a low what text country figures show almost three hundred u.g. hikes from the ruling coalition for the complicated in an already notorious system artie's party boyko picks up the story. by the end of this parliament the u.k. public will have seen cuts to some one hundred nineteen various taxes that all sounds great but for a government that's promised to create a lower tax country news that they've actually increased some two hundred ninety nine of the taxes might be somewhat confusing the brits assume going to see an extra levy on carbon dioxide emissions that means energy bills are going to go up

they're also going to see an increase in air passenger duty which means more expensive air travel and then some of the recent changes to u.k. tax law quite simply bizarre revenue and customs recently increased to be eighty four hairdressers renting a chair in a salon and then who can forget the recent. good scandal when u.k. tax code stated that it pasty would only be taxed if it was sold at above ambient temperatures critics say the system is simply too chaotic britain has one of the most complex time. jobs increases prices and it lowers wages so the time when families are struggling with the rising cost of living. many times increases. difficult for them it's clear that the british government is in desperate need of cash to deal with the dismal public finances which means that by

trimming a little bit of tax here and adding more tax burden there by twenty fifteen the u.k. treasury hopes to get an extra eighty four billion pounds in tax compared with the year before they came to power but critics say that once again is the british public which ends up out of pocket. artsy london next hour max kaiser and stacey herbert focus on how british authorities are handling the financial crisis and how they've tried to manipulate public perception . well gary's government is expected to block the russian finas construction of a new nuclear power plant this comes after a national referendum voted in favor of the project the vote however was invalidated due to

a low turnout bulgaria's allies in europe and the us feared the project would mean energy dependence on russia and p. room men of shadow over says authorities did their best to bring the vote down.

now to some other international news in brief workers in athens have gone on a two day strike with hundreds on the streets protesting against austerity measures that will make deep cuts to their paper five hundred medical staff chanted slogans in front of the health ministry doctors port workers and public transport staff took part in a number of different demonstrations across the greek capital. egypt's top of politicians have reportedly signed a document drew lancing widespread violence said protests across the country the agree men came at a meeting attended by leaders of the muslim brotherhood and the heads of liberal and secular opposition movements it was called as a president morsi card short his trip to germany over the ongoing andress at home without securing any backing from berlin. two hundred people including dozens of children have been injured in a train crash near pretoria in south africa and authorities say the accident

happened when a commuter train hit another stationary one twenty kilometers from the city emergency services arrived on the scene to find many of the injured walking along the tracks. north korean leader kim jong that all has reportedly imposed martial law and told his troops to be ready for war as a nuclear test use the isolated communist state is widely expected to hold its third ever test late next month meanwhile hundreds of protesters in the south korea called for the north to back down from its military threats seoul has want to pyongyang there will be grave consequences if it goes ahead with a new thread that a nation. i'll be back with another news update in just a few minutes stay with our team.

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